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Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income

File Form 1099-MISC for each person to whom you have paid during the year:

  • At least $10 in royalties or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest;
  • At least $600 in rents, services (including parts and materials), prizes and awards, other income payments, medical and health care payments, crop insurance proceeds, cash payments for fish (or other aquatic life) you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish, or, generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate;
  • Any fishing boat proceeds; or
  • Gross proceeds of $600 or more paid to an attorney.

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Form 1099-MISC
Instructions for Form 1099-MISC (HTML)

General Instructions for Certain Information Returns (Forms 1097, 1098, 1099, 3921, 3922, 5498, and W-2G)


Recent Developments

Changes to the 2013 Instructions for Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income -- 15-FEB-2013


Other Items You May Find Useful:

All Form 1099-MISC Revisions

Publication 15-A, Employer's Supplemental Tax Guide

Publication 15-B, Employer's Supplemental Tax Guide

Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses

Publication 542, Corporations

Publication 957, Reporting Back Pay and Special Wage Payments to the Social Security Administration

Publication 1542, Per Diem Rates

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